Franco Diogene

Franco Diogene

Nascimento : 1947-10-20, Catania, Sicily, Italy

Morte : 2005-05-28

História

Franco Diogene was born on October 20, 1947 in Catania, Sicily, Italy as Concetto Francesco Diogene. He was an actor, known for Midnight Express (1978), The Big Blue (1988) and The Name of the Rose (1986). He was married to Mariella Denari. He died on May 28, 2005 in Genova, Italy.

Perfil

Franco Diogene

Filmes

Santa Maria Goretti
Longa metragem com a emocionante história de Maria Goretti e de Alexandre Serenelli. Dois jovens que vivem uma intensa amizade a qual poderia ter-se transformado numa história de amor. Alexandre, no entanto, num ímpeto de violenta paixão, a transforma numa tragédia. O filme, dessa jovem terna e simples, quer mostrar que é possível conservar os valores cristãos, mesmo à custa do sacrifício da própria vida, testemunhando no perdão, a força do amor sem medida.
The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair
Luigi Mennini
A reconstruction of the bankruptcy of the Banco Ambrosiano bank and its liaisons with the Vatican and the Masonry through its president Roberto Calvi, notoriously found dead under the Blackfriars Bridge in London in June 1982.
Un uomo perbene
L'avvocato della sig.ra Marzano
In June 1983 the journalist and TV presenter Enzo Tortora was arrested on charges of drug trafficking and belonging to the Camorra.
Indiscretion of an American Wife
Giuseppe
An American diplomat's wife meets an Italian vintner at an embassy soirée. He sees her as more than just her "husband's hostess". Her husband has been so focused on advancing his career that he has forgotten how to see her as a woman, which the Italian reminds her that she is.
Con rabbia e con amore
At a bus stop they meet Francesca, an eighteen year old who is collaborating in a veterinary office, and Claudio, a university student. The two begin to walk together and talk about many things.
La classe non è acqua
Professore Siciliano
The Stendhal Syndrome
Victim’s Husband
A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brutal man's obsession.
Esercizi di stile
Various characters
The end of a love story, told in fourteen different styles: from comedy to western, from noir to thriller, silent movie and so on.
Poliziotti
Bunny
When young cop Andrea is assigned to keep watch over dangerous Godfather Sante, who's in hospital after a fake suicide attempt, the stage is set for disaster.
Caino e Caino
Direttore della Casa di Riposo
After the death of their rich industrialist father leaves them each with 49% of his company's shares, two brothers who can't stand each other start a war for the remaining 2%.
Pretty Princess
Titolare del bar
A princess from a Nordic European country is obligated to marry the boy her family chose. She escapes and discovers love in the arms of a beautiful swimming teacher.
Ci hai rotto papà
Arizona Road
Sheriff Barker
The head of a gang of criminals in Arizona tries to kidnap a girl, but is hindered in his intentions by a handsome mining engineer and a federal sheriff.
Watch Out for Perestroika
il portiere della pensione
Three friends, Fulvio, Marco and Filippo who are employed in a company that sells agricultural machinery are working under contract in socialist Bulgaria. Seeking entertainment, they are introduced to three Bulgarian beauties...
Corações Covardes
In pre-WWI Austria-Hungary, a physician struggles with his decision about which woman will he marry.
There Was a Castle with Forty Dogs
Padre di Violetta
The Sweet House of Horrors
Mr. Coby
A murdered couple return from the beyond to care for their two young children, as well as seek revenge against their killer, accept their children's step parents, and try to prevent their house from being sold.
Imensidão Azul
Receptionist
Há um lugar em nosso planeta que é mais incomum do que qualquer outro - o menos conhecido e o mais misterioso. É um lugar semelhante ao espaço sideral, no qual as noções convencionais de tempo e espaço se diluem. É um lugar mágico e perigoso no qual o corpo humano, bem como seu espírito, precisa se adaptar. É o único lugar onde um homem chamado Jacques Mayol realmente se sente em casa. É o mar - a "Imensidão Azul". Jacques e Enzo são amigos desde a infância e compartilham uma paixão pelo esporte perigoso do mergulho livre. O mergulhador profissional Jacques optou por seguir os passos de seu pai, que morreu no mar quando Jacques era um menino. Para perplexidade dos cientistas, Jacques possui a habilidade notável de ajustar sua freqüência cardíaca e padrão de respiração, de modo que seus sinais vitais se assemelhem mais aos dos golfinhos do que dos homens. Existem 3 versões: 168 m = do diretor 132 m = original 118 m = curta
The Third Solution
The Roman Catholic Pope is planning a reconciliatory meeting with the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, an event awaited for many generations. But suddenly, right while the Pope is addressing the crowds gathered in the Piazza Navone, a nun is assassinated by a Ukrainian, placing the upcoming talks between the two leaders in jeopardy. And the head of the American diplomatic corps (the nun was an American) assigns the investigation of the killing to one of his underlings, which leads the young man to investigate the Russicum, a center for the study of Russia within the Vatican city. And from there he finds himself caught up in an intrigue of international proportions, filled with agents and double agents, and ending with a revelation most unexpected.
Il lupo di mare
A waiter on a cruise ship tries to seduce the models that are aboard.
Interzone
Rat
Humans fight mutants in a post-holocaust world.
The Grumpy
controllore del treno
Traveling from New York to Italia, pretty Mary rushes into moody macho lawyer Tito. The girl immediately falls for the guy with the gruffy manners and in an very impertinent way, she leans on him as she gets in trouble: Not only that she gets tied up in her suite by some Gangsters, but also, her new husband is found dead.
7 Kilos in 7 Days
Assessore Turri
Two not very clever young doctors open a fitness center and promise to let people lose seven kilos in seven days. When the enterprise fails they open a gourmet restaurant.
O Nome da Rosa
Papal Visitor
Em 1327, William de Baskerville, um monge franciscano, e Adso von Melk, um noviço que o acompanha, chegam a um remoto mosteiro no norte da Itália. William de Baskerville pretende participar de um conclave para decidir se a Igreja deve doar parte de suas riquezas, mas a atenção é desviada por vários assassinatos que acontecem no mosteiro. William de Baskerville começa a investigar o caso, que se mostra bastante intrincando, além dos mais religiosos acreditarem que é obra do Demônio. William de Baskerville não partilha desta opinião, mas antes que ele conclua as investigações Bernardo Gui (F. Murray Abraham), o Grão-Inquisidor, chega no local e está pronto para torturar qualquer suspeito de heresia que tenha cometido assassinatos em nome do Diabo. Considerando que ele não gosta de Baskerville, ele é inclinado a colocá-lo no topo da lista dos que são diabolicamente influenciados.
The Mines of Kilimanjaro
Tai-Ling
A World War II-era college student must journey to Africa both to find his missing archaeology professor and search for the treasured mines of Kilimanjaro. He is followed by natives as well as scheming Chinese and Nazis
Madman at War
Nitti
Story about a doctor in a Libyan military hospital who is mad, but no-one wants to declare him unfit, and he becomes the captain of a fighting unit. Through him the Germans risk losing a truce with the British, and therefore kill him and give him a hero's funeral.
Killer vs Killers
Hagen
A businessman recruits some thieves to steal a valuable chemical formula kept in an well guarded industrial site. The raid is successful, but once he has the formula, the man tries to get rid of those who worked for him.
Il ragazzo di campagna
Insurrance Manager
A man is forced to completely change his habits when he decides to move from the country to the city.
Don Camillo
Binella
Don Camillo (Terence Hill), um pároco de uma cidadezinha agitada que é controlada pelo comunista Peppone, seu inimigo. A rivalidade de ambos cresce constantemente quando o assunto é religião e esporte.
Stesso mare stessa spiaggia
Piero
Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
team manager
Two back-to-back stories that deals with two "taboo" themes, the celibacy of the clergy in the episode of Renato Pozzetto and the homosexuality in the one with Nino Manfredi.
Attila flagello di Dio
mercante genovese
The misadventures of Attila and his band of barbarians as they take up arms against the Roman Empire in their native Milano
Grand Hotel Excelsior
Ing. Binotti
Taddeus is the manager of the Grand Hotel Excelsior. The Summer season begins in May and since then many odd persons frequent the hotel. There is Ilde Vivaldi, in love with Taddeus and the boxer Pericle Coccia who has an important match and falls in love with Maria. There is the Mago di Segrate trying to win world fame by levitating thirty meters high. And there is the waiter Egisto whose daughter is in a Swiss College believing her father is a man of importance.
Young, Beautiful... Probably Rich
notaio Baldelli
Claudia, Rita, and Caterina are three friends who live in a conservative Italian town and lead seemingly neat and respectable married lives. One day, they are summoned to the notary public's office and learn that Anna, one of their peers in high school who got a bad name as a "whore" in the town because of them and was forced to leave is now dead. Furthermore, she had amassed a great fortune abroad and decided to bequeath it to the three. However, she has a strange condition: Claudia, Rita, and Caterina should cheat on their husbands within three days and provide photographic evidence or else the inheritance will be donated to the retirement home.
Attenti a quei P2
lo sceicco Kasheri
Attenti a quei P2 (Beware of those P2s) is a satirical parody of the judicial affair concerning the P2 Masonic lodge.
The Haunted House
il proprietario della casa fatiscente
George and Lucia are newlyweds and have also been lucky enough to find a home at a low price , very low . Maybe too low . In fact the house is haunted by two lovers who, a thousand years ago, were surprised by the girl's mother who subsequently turned them into pillars of salt . But there is a way to break the magic and free the two lovers caught in the curse and it is all in the hands of the newlyweds on their wedding night . Will they succeed ?
The Paramedic
Palletta, lo sfasciacarrozze
At work, Mario Millio is the only male nurse not on strike. At home, his wife is more interested in calling the hot-line of a local TV-doctor. When Mario wins 15 million Lire in the lottery, he buys himself a new car and starts to live out his dreams in secret. All goes well until a criminal steals the car and Mario is blamed for the car thief's crimes
Madly in Love
Capo cameriere
Cristina is a rich, spoiled princess visiting Rome with her royal parents. The mission of their visit is to marry her off to a super-wealthy corporate type and thereby start to turn around the losses their small kingdom is experiencing in its casino business. These less-than-noble intentions get derailed when Barnaba, a zany bus driver enters their lives and falls madly in love with the gorgeous Cristina. He is nuts enough to succeed in this romantic chase after royalty, as love seems to fuel his determination to rid Cristina of her elitism and to make her see his own irrepressible attractions.
The Soup
Campione americano
Rome, 1960. Four different people meet each other at the Olympics. They follow the games and become friends, talking about their sad lifes.
Crime em Milão
Busoni
Neste sétimo capítulo da série Nico Giraldi, um inspetor da polícia tem de regressar ao seu antigo bairro para investigar um suspeito de homicídio.
School Teacher on the Sea with Her Class
Preside
It's summer. Lisa goes every day in a holiday hotel to give French lessons to Mario, the owner's son. the beauty and personality of Lisa quickly raise the attraction of tourists, but also jealousy of mothers who see their husbands and son prowling around the lovely young woman ...
Cidade das Mulheres
Party guest (uncredited)
Um empresário se vê preso em um hotel e ameaçado por mulheres em massa. Marcello está na cabine de um trem italiano, olhando para frente quando a água mineral da mulher sentada à sua frente começa a cair em sua direção. Ele pega a garrafa e faz contato visual e a segue quando ela sai da cabine. Por alguns momentos, ela o acha atraente também. De repente, ela desce do trem e começa a andar por um campo. Marcello a segue mas a perde, e está em um grande hotel cercado por mulheres. Uma conferência feminista está ocorrendo e ele tenta escapar. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
Trauma
Bitto
A couple invites some friends to spend a weekend together in an isolated cabin surrounded by woods and fields. But... there's a killer lurking around.... And... someone is monitoring him.
The New Godfathers
Achmet
A revolution in Iran halts a heroin shipment, but an alliance of crime families is set on getting it to the US. They decide to run the drug through an unsuspecting network of good-natured, local smugglers in Naples, while an international anti-narcotics agent rushes to shut their operation down. Betrayals and divided loyalties lead to a final, bloody confrontation in America.
Delegacia de Mulheres
Joe Maccarone
The adventures of Gianna, a sexy policewoman who wants to help a child in search of his mother.
Saturday, Sunday and Friday
l'avvocato del gangster (episodio "Venerdì")
SABATO (first episode): A company receives the visit of a very very important person. This person works for a biggest Japanese society, and this encounter is decisive for the small Italian company. DOMENICA (second episode): After a hard day of job, a man returns in it's house for sleep. But a series of facts hinder this, and the poor man does not succeed to sleep. VENERDI (third episode): A famous and rich creator of sexy ballets have various problems with a dancer. She want to leave the theater and marry a Mafia man.
Gardenia
Gardenia's Friend
A businessman comes into conflict with a gangster when he refuses to allow drugs to be sold through his restaurant.
O Expresso da Meia-Noite
Yesil
Billy Hayes (Brad Davis), um estudante americano, ao visitar a Turquia decide traficar alguns pacotes de haxixe, prendendo-os debaixo de suas roupas. Seu plano acaba não dando certo e ele é preso, com sua vida se transformando em um pesadelo a partir de então, pois é brutalmente espancado e jogado em uma imunda prisão. Quando espera ser libertado é levado a um novo julgamento com efeito retroativo, que o condena a uma longa pena.
Blazing Flowers
Brothel Customer
Pino Scalise discharged from the prison he was in for robbery, take refuge in Milan at the home of his uncle. Pino falls in love with one of the uncle's two daughters, who has become a prostitute because of Don Ciccio, head of a gang that traffics in drugs. Pino, now an informer to Police Commissioner Morani, makes plans to take the boss down.
Taxi Girl
sceicco Abdul Lala
Marcella inherits a taxi business from her father and now sets out on the job of her life. With each new fare she becomes involved with sex and crime, all done up 70's Italian comedy style.
Tentáculos
Chuck
Uma gigantesca criatura marinha emerge do abismo oceânico trazendo terror e morte por onde passa, ameaçando turistas e moradores da praia de Solana Beach, Califórnia. Enquanto muitos pensam tratar-se de um tubarão, outros sabem a verdadeira e macabra história sobre o monstro marinho.
Senhoras e Senhores, Boa Noite
Salumiere a Milano
An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel. An English language lesson turns into a killing of a black dignitary of an embassy by a CIA agent and then into his own killing by another colleague. In a television film, the police are befooled by a fake bomb and put a real one in order not to be derided by the public. In a film inquisition show, the bishop of Naples speaks highly of the importance of the family, but a child who lives a miserable family life kills himself. In the debate that follows it is proposed that they should eat the children, as Swift had said. In the next episode, a general who is in the toilet is called for the NATO parade, but the flasher breaks and in his effort to fix it, he dirts allover and kills himself. In a children's show an inspector finds excuses and delays the arrest of a powerful man...
Rome, the Other Face of Violence
Four bandits commit a robbery in a villa. The maid calls the police and Commissioner Carli immediately orders patrols to chase them.
Love Sacrifice
Sciaccaluga
Leonidas, of noble lineage but poor, serves in the house of Count Aristide Of the Fava Dongo, waiting patiently for his death to arrive. He dies at last, but rumors reveal that, on his deathbed, the Count has decided to leave everything to Marco (Claudio Ercoli), his illegitimate and retarded son who secretly grew up in a boarding school. In the meantime, the whole family of Leonida moves to the luxurious estate as for certainly no one wants to miss out on this wealth opportunity...
Sex with a Smile
Comm Ignazio (episodio "I soldi in bocca")
Five short comic sketches, all unrelated to each other, except that they are all expressions of Italian sexual humor.
A Colegial
Amante di Monica
Loredana is a schoolgirl who takes advantage of her fellow students and teachers by using her innocent schoolgirl beauty. After she loses her virginity to an older man she soon realizes there are more important things to life than teasing men.
Nua Para o Assassino
Maurizio Montani
A fashion model dies during a botched abortion, and the people closely connected to her are murdered one by one.
Buttiglione diventa capo del servizio segreto
Tenente Parisi
Il giustiziere di mezzogiorno
il vigile corrotto Nardini
Franco is abandoned by his wife and daughter who wrongly accuse him of being a wimp. Besides he's bossed around and sexually harassed at work. He decides to take justice into his own hands and get rough with the world. He soon gets his family's respect back.
La collegiale
Carlo De Marchi
The sexually naive Daniela returns home from boarding school only to realize that her family is involved in an excess of bed-hopping and sexual perversion.
Il piatto piange
Peppino il Barbiere
In Luino, on Lake Maggiore, during the fascist twenty years, a group of friends belonging to the bourgeoisie spend the nights in the underground gambling den of the Metropolitan Hotel between poker games, gossip, manly goliards and escapades to the house of tolerance.
How Colonel Buttiglione Became a General
Kidnap
Nino
This crime drama follows Italian police commissioner Caprile (Henry Silva) as he races to rescue the 6-year-old daughter of an important businessman. Also hoping to save her is Frank Salvatore (Gabriele Ferzetti), the old-school Mafia don accused of the crime. Caprile leans on a low-level thug (Philippe Leroy) for information and is led to Salvatore, who considers children to be off-limits as targets and hopes to restore his reputation
Teresa the Thief
Teresa gets her first taste of crime -- and its consequences -- when, during World War II, she is nabbed for robbing an apartment. But being poor and perpetually starving, the pretty petty thief doesn't give up her quest for ill-gotten gains and soon turns to pick-pocketing. Despite her questionable thieving skills, the bumbling crook tries scheme after scheme, pilfering from strangers and dodging the law as she searches for a way to fund an adequate meal.
What the Chambermaid Saw
Country bumpkin Maria Rosa becomes the new maid in a second-rate Roman hotel. A hole in the wall behind the mirror in her room turns her and a horny bellboy into voyeurs